Anglorum speculum, or, The worthies of England in church and state alphabetically digested into the several shires and counties therein contained : wherein are illustrated the lives and characters of the most eminent persons since the conquest to this present age : also an account of the commodities and trade of each respective county and the most flourishing cities and towns therein.

CHAP. VII. Of Judges and Writers on the Common Law.

CApital Judges are 1. The Chief Justice, of the Kings Bench. 2 Of the Common-Pleas. 3. The Chief Baron of the Exchequer. The first is called the Lord Chief Justice of England, to whom the Chief Justice of the Com. Pleas is inferiour in Place, tho 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Profit he be above him, so that some have, out 〈◊〉〈◊〉 design, quitted that, to accept this; Amongst whom was Sr. Ed. Montague, in the reign of H. 8, who, i•…•… defence of his Choice, said, I am now an old Man, and love the Kitchin above the Hall. The Chief Bar•••• is employed in the Exchequer, about the Kings Re∣venue. The Catalogue begins about the time of E. 1. As for Writers of the Common Law, I have placed them with the Judges.